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    Healthcare rules prompt confusion

    Editorial, Published on 24/03/2024

    » The sight of an elderly woman suffering from chronic renal failure, heart disease, ulcers and asthma clutching an oxygen flow tube in one hand and attempting to organise piles of documents required for treatment under the gold card universal healthcare scheme with the other, is a poignant reminder of its efficacy.

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    Another year, same blasts

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/01/2024

    » Tomorrow, the Lower House Committee on Industry will summon the five ministries responsible to discuss how to improve safety at fireworks factories following reports that a facility in Suphan Buri, where a deadly blast that killed 23 people occurred last Wednesday, may have had 500 kilogrammes of explosive materials stored inside.

  • News & article

    Budget bill lacks focus

    News, Editorial, Published on 08/01/2024

    » The House debate following the first reading of the 2024 Budget Bill concluded on Friday with most government MPs voting in support of the bill, despite concerns sounded by the opposition, most notably the Move Forward Party, about the 3.48-trillion-baht budget.

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    Southern comfort?

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/01/2024

    » Yesterday was no run-of-the-mill Thursday; rather, it was a red-letter day marking the decades-long violence plaguing the three southernmost provinces.

  • News & article

    Climate wake-up call

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/01/2024

    » As the rest of the country celebrated the festive season, people in the deep South provinces struggled with the effects of severe flooding.

  • News & article

    CEO solution won't work

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/12/2023

    » The Srettha Thavisin administration's decision to revive the idea of turning governors into chief executive officers (CEO) of their respective provinces has raised many eyebrows.

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    Decree no longer a help

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/10/2023

    » Today, the cabinet will decide whether to renew the emergency decree for the deep southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. The decision will show whether the Srettha government has the audacity to change a hitherto hard-line security policy in the region.

  • News & article

    End hazing peril, reform military

    Editorial, Published on 03/09/2023

    » Army conscript Wichian Phueksom was tortured to death in an army camp over 12 years ago. Today, justice has still not been served.

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    Explosive matters

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/08/2023

    » A clip of an explosion at a fireworks storage facility in southern Narathiwat province on Saturday has gone viral. It serves as a reminder to society about the clear and present danger of having industrial factories and warehouses in residential neighbourhoods.

  • News & article

    Southern discomfort

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/06/2023

    » A mock referendum campaign by a group of Muslim students in the deep South on separatism has triggered panic across the kingdom. The move is highly sensitive and risks breaching Section 1 of the charter which says that Thailand is an indivisible kingdom.

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